Hello all,
I saw something
online about some of the byproducts of BSFL. The leachate (the liquid by product?) can be diluted into a liquid fertilizer, much like one of the by products for an anaerobic digester. I saw people using the solid waste from them (name?) as a
feed for their worms. I also saw someone using bsfl waste (solid? Maybe liquid?) In their anaerobic digesters and I may have seen something that did the reverse, that is digest first. I also know that BSFL digest tanks sometimes become anaerobic which is good for the bacteria, but bad for the larvae, right?
What I like about BSFL is they can eat pretty much anything and quickly and produce food for my
chickens. What I don't like is that they can't eat grass clippings, leaves, paper,
cardboard, and other high cellulose items.
What I like about biogas production is that we would be capturing the gases for further use, but it may have issues with cardboard and paper (though I believe non Woody garden clippings are fine). It would bother me to produce gas in a composting system that isn't being collected, assuming there is
enough to collect. Also, it seems to be able to handle less
chicken manure.
I've looked into worms and crickets as well. I'd feed the crickets to
chickens, but probably not the worms (seems like a lot of work.) I could use crickets to break down high cellulose items, but if I'm loosing gas, why bother? And since they don't really eat cardboard, I'd rather not bother since I'd really like to get rid of that without burning it.
So I have many questions. First I guess would be, how are you mixing biogas with other composting methods? Does anyone think a hybrid system that allows anaerobic digestion and BSFL would be possible? That is, could we successfully separate out the material for further digestion from the larvae., Without losing the larvae? I'm willing to do some work to do this and willing to use other bugs in the process. Like BSFL-worms (add in cellulose here)-anaerobic digester. Or perhaps an aerated section for bsfl to live in and an anaerobic section for further digestion with gas being collected and combined for both? And how do you dispose of your cardboard and paper?
I've also posted this with the biogas forum.